US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on Feb. 24 for "Oligonucleotide manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,517, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Oligonucleotide manufacturing method" was invented by Ken Yamashita (Kawasaki, Japan), Kunihiro Hirai (Kawasaki, Japan), Satoshi Katayama (Kawasaki, Japan), Taisuke Ichimaru (Kawasaki, Japan), Daisuke Takahashi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Naoko Hirose (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a more stable and efficient method for producing oligonucleotide, particularly, oligonucleotide having various functional groups linked to the 3'-terminal and the like. Efficient production of oligonucleotide becomes possible by a productio...